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Nine things you should know about Nautilus

Nautilus
Nautilus

The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. That's the one I poked with a stick.

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"While it looks simple on

"While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell."

So that's why it's so big and slow ;-)

cough Thunar /cough

Actually, I much prefer it to Windows Explorer, much as I prefer the general GNOME experience to the Windows one.